Gamasutra – Press Releases- SoundSelf: A New Way to Cope with Confinement Stress – Digital Meditation is About to be Revolutionized

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While the sector waits for a remedy to the worldwide scientific disaster, one enterprising US startup has created a brand new immersive enjoy to assist us thru isolation. SoundSelf: A Technodelic, advanced via Andromeda Entertainment, invitations you on a meditative adventure guided via your individual voice. The enjoy will likely be to be had for PC and Mac (microphone required), and for VR headsets on April 22, 2020.

The SoundSelf utility was once the topic of a scientific find out about via scientists on the NeuroMeditation Institute in america, led via its founder Dr. Jeff Tarrant. The app was once discovered to definitely impact temper and anxiousness, with a abstract of the consequences to be had right here: https://www.enterandromeda.com/ss-science.

Journey to the centre of self

SoundSelf delivers a singular meditative enjoy during which you create and regulate track and visuals via making a song and buzzing. The sounds you’re making are remodeled into enjoyable bureaucracy and pictures that allow you to attach along with your “deep self”.

Creator Robin Arnott printed his imaginative and prescient for SoundSelf in a public TED Talk to be had right here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfd8HtQq67gScientific research and research: results on temper very similar to psychotropic medicine?

Psychologist Dr. Jeff Tarrant, writer and founding father of the NeuroMeditation Institute, has produced thrilling effects from early research with a small team of topics. Using electroencephalography (EEG), the checks confirmed that SoundSelf can induce mind task corresponding to a psychedelic state. The revealed find out about, “Can Virtual Reality be Psychedelic? A Comparison of SoundSelf VR with Guided Meditation VR on Quantitative EEG, Altered States, and Mood” contains the next 3 key takeaways:

SoundSelf induces an identical EEG patterns in users to these produced via psychedelic ingredients.

After 10 mins of use, players document emotions of cohesion awareness very similar to the ones seen in research with psilocybin. The sure results of psilocybin had been explored in a separate find out about via Professor Griffith of Johns Hopkins University, which confirmed that the energetic component, present in positive hallucinogenic mushrooms, can assist scientific sufferers with despair. According to the find out about, the managed use of psilocybin reduces anxiousness and improves temper.

SoundSelf has been proven to have a good have an effect on on player temper, inflicting an important lower of unfavourable temper states comparable to stress and confusion, and a an identical build up in sure temper states comparable to calmness and happiness.

Useful hyperlinks

SoundSelf will likely be to be had on April 22 by the use of Steam for PC, Mac and VR headsets.

Price: 24.95 €

Video teaser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuvDa1Q45Qo

Press package: https://www.enterandromeda.com/ss-presskit

Official web site: https://www.enterandromeda.com/titles#4

SoundSelf on the Game Science Center Berlin: https://www.gamesciencecenter.de/-/pf/soundself/?lang=en

About Andromeda Entertainment

Founded in January 2019, Andromeda Entertainment is the primary writer to super-serve the rising passion in mindfulness and wellness with transformative and immersive leisure studies. Led via Robin Arnott, experimental game fashion designer and awareness hacker, with co-founders Heather Ray, John McClellan, and Lyle Maxon, Andromeda creates and publishes deep interactive studies that nourish the thoughts and frame. First out titles come with SoundSelf, advanced via Andromeda, and Audio Trip advanced via Kinemotik Studios, each to be launched between 2019 and 2020. Visit us at www.enterandromeda.com. Follow us @enterandromeda on Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, & Instagram